New Era (Windhoek)
22 April 2008
The Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) yesterday called on all Namibians to raise their voices in protest against the docking of the Chinese ship, An Jue Jiang, at a Namibian harbour.
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Oh! News of these actions to prevent delivery of arms to Zimbabwe does my heart SO much good! Interesting(but unsurprising) that we have heard nothing of it in the mainstream media here in the US! Thanks to all Africans who continue to press for peace & prosperity for all Africa. Aja Chicago
All SADC countries have ratified a Fire Arms Protocol of 2004, which asserts that states should harmonise their firearms control law to prevent the conflict in the region and destabilizing accumulation of it.Namibia as part of SADC is responsible and accountible to see that this consigment does not go through the borders of Namibia.We all fought for the land right and also for the human rights and the current situation in Zimbabwe does not convince any person with logic that there is not a crisis.We must not forget that we are all Africans,including those in ruling party ZANU-PF and MTC. As much as Mr.Robert Mugabe`s head i could be at stake and need protection so is Mr. Morgan Tsivangarai and he needs to be protected at all cost.But this seems not the case to some SADC States,there is no mentioning about it. The man was once beaten and this was never considered serious because some kind of protection could have been taken by SADC by now.What is needed now is to send an independant UN Commission of Inquiry to do a thorough invetsigation on post election Human Rights violations in Zimbabwe and give an impartial International report proving the state of matters in Zimbabwe urgently.For any elections we UN election observers.